Hello good people.
This is just a general wonderment that I have, that I could perhaps attribute to my own lack of experience.
I see a lot of people posting requests to get feedback on their scripts here. What I wonder is how they're brave enough to not feel like they could be plagiarized? As a screenwriter, I'm so so weary and afraid that in times when it's tough to create something COMPLETELY original and different, something that I do accomplish could be stolen by someone before it even hits the sets.
I guess a lot of it is having faith in the ad-honorarium aspect of the forum, and trusting that this is a community of artists that are all here to help and support one another, but I was just wondering if anybody else thinks it would be a reasonable concern to worry about being plagiarized.
The only reason I ask is that I have a script for a feature that I'm trying to get feedback on from people other than my friends, most of whom aren't really 'film' people, and where a part of me wants to go ahead and ask the world and their brother for feedback, the other part of me just takes a million steps back in protectiveness. Thoughts? Am I being realistic or just overly cautious?
Cheers
This is just a general wonderment that I have, that I could perhaps attribute to my own lack of experience.
I see a lot of people posting requests to get feedback on their scripts here. What I wonder is how they're brave enough to not feel like they could be plagiarized? As a screenwriter, I'm so so weary and afraid that in times when it's tough to create something COMPLETELY original and different, something that I do accomplish could be stolen by someone before it even hits the sets.
I guess a lot of it is having faith in the ad-honorarium aspect of the forum, and trusting that this is a community of artists that are all here to help and support one another, but I was just wondering if anybody else thinks it would be a reasonable concern to worry about being plagiarized.
The only reason I ask is that I have a script for a feature that I'm trying to get feedback on from people other than my friends, most of whom aren't really 'film' people, and where a part of me wants to go ahead and ask the world and their brother for feedback, the other part of me just takes a million steps back in protectiveness. Thoughts? Am I being realistic or just overly cautious?
Cheers